Did Hillary Clinton just pledge to investigate UFOs?

Former First Lady and Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton reportedly plans to follow in her husband’s footsteps and probe the UFO issue if she becomes president.

On Tuesday, December 29, the former New York senator and former secretary of state visited the office of The Conway Daily Sun, a free daily newspaper in New Hampshire. GOP candidates Marco Rubio and Jeb Bush also paid visits to the paper’s office recently. Clinton discussed foreign policy and the economy with Conway Daily Sun reporters during her visit. But she also reportedly discussed UFOs.

Hillary Clinton not only signed the refrigerator at The Conway Daily Sun on Tuesday night, she signed a picture of herself signing the refrigerator when she was last here, in 2007. For complete coverage, see Thursday's edition.

According to reporter Daymond Steer, when he asked her about UFOs, Clinton responded, “Yes, I’m going to get to the bottom of it.”

Her husband, Bill, made attempts to uncover UFO secrets while he was president. He specifically did some digging related to the 1947 Roswell UFO Incident, as well as the mysterious military installation Area 51. In 2014, Bill Clinton appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live, and, when asked about his research, he said he didn’t find any evidence of extraterrestrials. But when Kimmel asked Clinton if he would inform the public if he had, Clinton said he would, then added:

What do we know now? We know we live in an ever expanding universe. We know that there are billions of stars and planets, literally, out there, and the universe is getting bigger. We know from our fancy telescopes that just in the last two years more than 20 planets have been identified outside of our solar system that seem to be far away enough from their suns and dense enough that they might be able to support some form of life. So, it makes it increasingly less likely that we are alone.

Bill Clinton’s Chief of Staff, John Podesta, is currently Hillary’s campaign chairman. This former Counselor to President Obama is a strong advocate for government transparency when it comes to knowledge of UFOs and files related to UFO phenomena. When Podesta left the White House to begin working on Clinton’s campaign, he publicly voiced regret over not being able to get government UFO files released to the public.

In late 2015, following the publication of an interview with Hillary Clinton, conducted by actor Lena Dunham, Podesta posted to Twitter:

When asked about Podesta during her recent visit to The Conway Daily Sun, Clinton stated, “He has made me personally pledge we are going to get the information out.” She continued, “One way or another. Maybe we could have, like, a task force to go to Area 51.”

Clinton also reportedly told Steer, “I think we may have been (visited already). We don’t know for sure.”

If the conversation between Clinton and Steer went down as reported, it’s pretty interesting to see her speaking publicly about the topic. Then again, she may have assumed she was having an “off the record” conversation.